In trading on Tuesday, shares of RAIT Financial Trust's 7.75% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares were yielding above the 9.5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.9375), with shares changing hands as low as $20.14 on the day. This compares to an average yield of 7.05% in the "Real Estate" preferred stock category, according to Preferred Stock Channel.

In trading on Monday, shares of RAIT Financial Trust's 8.875% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares were yielding above the 9.5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $2.2188), with shares changing hands as low as $23.30 on the day. This compares to an average yield of 7.05% in the "Real Estate" preferred stock category, according to Preferred Stock Channel.

Independence Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE MKT: IRT) (the "Company") today announced that the underwriters for its previously announced public offering of 25,000,000 shares of common stock exercised in full their option to...

Independence Realty Trust, Inc. ("IRT") (NYSE:IRT) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with RAIT Financial Trust ("RAIT") (NYSE: RAS) with respect to the internalization of IRT's external...

RAIT Financial Trust (NYSE:RAS) ("RAIT" or the "Company") announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its subsidiary, Independence Realty Advisors, LLC, the external advisor of...

In trading on Friday, shares of RAIT Financial Trust's 7.75% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares were yielding above the 9.5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.9375), with shares changing hands as low as $20.38 on the day. This compares to an average yield of 6.61% in the "Real Estate" preferred stock category, according to Preferred Stock Channel.

In trading on Thursday, shares of RAIT Financial Trust's 8.875% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares were yielding above the 9.5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $2.2188), with shares changing hands as low as $23.25 on the day. This compares to an average yield of 6.58% in the "Real Estate" preferred stock category, according to Preferred Stock Channel.

Independence Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE MKT: IRT) ("IRT") today announced that, on July 14, 2016, IRT's Board of Directors declared monthly cash dividends for the third quarter of 2016 on IRT's shares of common stock in the...

In this series, we look through the most recent Dividend Channel ''DividendRank'' report, and then we cherry pick only those companies that have experienced insider buying within the past six months. The officers and directors of a company tend to have a unique insider's view of the business, and presumably the only reason an insider would choose to take their hard-earned cash and use it to buy stock in the open market, is that they expect to make money — maybe they find the stock very undervalued, or maybe they see exciting progress within the company, or maybe both.